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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 10 Mar 1932, p. 3

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$80.000I Camnpaign to Secure 1932 Budget ----- any Groupa Pledge to Purche Fund Progresses S1owly Fieo neenie rgndsryd Parent-Teacher Association But Surely, Report the tuwo-story Miralago building on c olBadi Sheridan road in -No Matn's Land"VSho or i Tjh '~BySotbde n Tuesday iiight and early WVedinesday lie 193 Bo Scot buget i.ud iorIliug.ý The blaze wvas one of the, Students of New Trier Higb school,, caipa n s pogessngslolybutsue- ,uit 'spectacular seen on the north ini a d.esperate effort' to prevent the IV i,> as icompletion, accorcllng toHnyjls closingof the school on April 1, have Fouwler. president of thé North ýShorere e n ay ots iliaugurated -an, intensive campaigiu Area, couinci.l. At44 clc usayatro naong theniselves, their parents and Wilnetv wthseeny-iv cpt \%'xlieux the fiames were discovered, the friends to dispose of enough tax an- wit sveny-fiv cptansWinnietka and Wilmette fir-e départ- and - %workers on the job, has $2,259 yeýt mnswr oiid btnihrrsod ticipation.warrants to keep the school to l>e raised of the quota of $4,797 ed at that time. ope Unt. teedo h rsn Jamnes B.Hotc 1ffrnan, fiast e-e theri oew Trir oarno the \-Vilmette district, met with Ilis cap- TeEaso ieýdpriin,ýa at*e h e rebado tain-: and 'Workers on Mondav 'and 'àlled and respoilded immediately. Ev- 1education announced' dèfinitely that T1' eý,day, evenings of thi.s week at the alnston firemenl tapped a Kenilvorth' thte higli schiool w-ould close April 1, Village hall in order t1lat thé workers \water hyvdrant and the blaze wvas prac- since the. cash on hand on "March 1 miit' check up and secure. additional ti.cally uinder'.controt when the Kenil-. .. as onl1Y $5,OO0, wivth no prospect of rvieed.worh poiceréfsed o alowthe fire- Inis of prospects to be interiwd otplceefsdoalw an adequate amounit being reteived Kenilworth has $409 yet to secure nntoakwtefrithKelothto continue operation for the remain- of the quota-of $1,,791, and M. V. H'aleý mains, according to Fire Chief A.. N. (fer of this school year. district' finance chairman, believes that .osete of Enson Thi16vs0dne the itind wvill have been subscribed 1w 't was explained, because the Miralago Ne 10O th ed f hewek.had no contract w%ýith Kenilworth to, T'o keep the school open until the -innietka, %vith Sernian Alrc s supl% %vater. for fire protection, but!i close of the 'ternil requires a mini-; disrit lnn~echiran ha scuedonl- for domestic use. ti muni of $160,000, and the students distictfinace haimain ha setred'.1hope to raise enough of this amount ail but $ 1,986 of its~ $6,500 quota Up) Orders Water Tut,,ed on tlhrough the purcliase of tat aniticipa- to last Monday, with a large number Wenidell H. Clark, Kenilworth Vil- ition warrants to cause the board of of prospects yet to be seen. îagc clerk, when notified that the water j education to alter its decision to close Glencoe's quota of $4,015 lack s $1,286 hadà been shut off, ordered that it be' the school April 1. oilopletion, according: to Harry W.turned on again and the Evanston fire- Suet r ldigtepr Stannard. district 'finance chairmnan. men. res.umed their battie against the cî-iltse of' tax anticipation w arrants, Mr. owle. ii comtentng o thefianles. Meanwhile the 'blaze had beeni sn oe o hi w aig canp~aigh. called attention to the "great- raigucekd er need for Scoýutinig, due to decreased' gn nhce.o ud hyaeal ooti o About 6 o'clock.Village President C. other sources. .By Tuesday morning .activities ()n the part of the public P Dubbs of Wilmnette ordered the Wil-~ $3,925hdbensscid.Hw st4lstem"He' stated that in pMil-esbsrbd.Hw scauke 'h cuswr gvna i-mette firenien to assist the Evanston fire cever, unless the board of education craied e d th i us yer, bie a 'ilv fighiters. Shortly before midnight thôicari be prevailed uipon. later to change f eI tht te df S * uderEvanston department askecl the, Win- its, decision and keep the school open petentcohends fos rtr Stan une netka firemen to corne to the scene and matil the end ofthe term noue of the frer condtirs, vsete ni relieve thçmn. The Winnetka depart- pledges will' be accepted. Af in p-crvs.~ as h ~iv.i ment responded to this cail. Fe.r Credit Los.es not he dropped until its cornpletion,ý The fire continued to rage during the Faced with the possibility. of los-j and to that end the workers Fnal ienielih fought the ae n theth teni- îîg the crédits tey woul othewîse* tricts are continuing their efforts. Highi'Frne ogtth lz itetn- carn and the confusion attendant up- m-ood. Northbrook, and Glenview have onatr na eo transfers to other schools, theý already reacéhed their quotas, end three Loss About $8010" New Trier students have, shown much othr ows n heare ae o ea .The. loss is estimated to be approxi- enthusiam i'in the. purchase of the to reaching the prescribed amoutthat iuatelv $80,000. The Miralago build- tax.warrants. which pay six percent they are expected to achieve theéir goal ing wvas adequately covered by, insurance. interest. ýSeveral organizations ini the bv the end of this week. Althouglh other buildings ini the vicin- school which had money available de- _____________it'y were threatened,'they wvere not dam- cided to invest it in this way. The, aged to any appreciable extent.. The Girls' club pledged $1,00. the band IL. J. Orr Candidate V'illa de Metre, which adjoins the Mira- $200, the French departmlent under for Village Clerki lago on the north, incurred niinor dami- Mtiss Jessie Sentnlev $125, the Lens T T (~ dV1~ ~ages froin the ivater used to fight the- Iase Tax Anticipaition Warrants; k eets Next Monday; High Session March 15 club $100; the Sports club $25 and the. German club,$25. - The students' carnpaign to dispose of the tax anticipation warrants was inaugurated, last Friday. It will con- tinue ýthroughoùt this week.. The students have enlisted the hielp and advice of the facui1ty in the'hope that cooperative. and intensive effort *ill resuit. in the, pledging, of a sufficient suni so that the board' of educatioà cari be prevailed upont to continue operati.on of the higli school aftér April 1. P. T. A. Meete' Mcmday Parents likewise are having the seriousness, of the situation' broughit mnore. forcibly to their attention. A meeting of the> New Trier Parent- Teacher association will be held Mon- day night, when the forthcoming clos- ing of the school will be discuss ed. Tliose in c~harge of the .student, tax anticipation warrant selling campaign 1wish it especially emphasized tlhat no money is being taken in and tliat pledges made te, purchase, the"war- rants will be nuil and void, uniess, a (jecision is miade later to keep.,the high school open. Board CoUv.IIe. Tuesday The New Trier board of educatiion will hold a regular meeting Tuesday night, Mvarch .15. The desperate, fi:!- ancial crisis which bas brouglit aboit the present state of affairs %vill. be discussed further at that tume. William Bdmonds to Head N. W. Men's Club Friday evening March 4. the North- west Men's club held its annual meet- ing and dinner. The oficers and1 commlittee chairm.en elected for, the coming 3'ear are as follows:. Wlliamn Edmonds, president; J. D. Kinnear, vice-president; George Sher- zer, secretary; Edward J. Devlin, treasurer; Howard Bowers. social *MIss Anrne L. VVhtmaiUç, iuii)arian. Thtis was a thirty-four percent i'i- crease over February of the previnus year. Two hundred and-.ten new cards were taken out during the nionth, including 171 by aduits, Mis Whitmack states Seventy-five ýnew books, mostly fiction, were added to. the,,librarys collection., w7as entered into, CONDUCTS CHURCH SERVICES Tuesday evening, March 15, the Rev. Howard Brinker of St. Bartholomew's cburcb in, Chicago wilI conduct the serv- ices at the Cbuircb of the Holy Coni- foÈter in 1Kenilworth. anda là silk , Cali WiImette4300 A-SK FO0R AD-TAI(ER mette Chamber of Commerce to 290. The new 'regular member is Carl Schwall, of the Wilmette Auto Ra- diator company. The two new civic members. are W. R. Blunt, 1618 Elm- wood avenue, and Harper E. Osborn, 715 Linden avenue.

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